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Accident Summary Nr: 132885.015 - Employee incurs multiple injuries when struck by elevator do

Accident Summary Nr: 132885.015 -- Report ID: 0418300 -- Event Date: 01/19/2021
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1512600.015	01/27/2021		311615	Pilgrim'S Pride Corporation

Abstract: At 10:48 p.m. on January 19, 2021, an employee was reaching into a vertical reciprocating conveyor (VRC), or full-size freight elevator lift box, to remove packaging supplies. The two #35 master links that connect the chains on each side of the gate to the counterweights failed, and the inner gate fell down onto the employee and knocked her down to the ground. The door bounced back up, then fell back down again onto the employee's leg. The employee was hospitalized to treat a fractured tibia and fibula, compression fractures to vertebrae, and a collapsed lung.

Keywords: Blind Reaching, Chain, Collapsed lung, Conveyor, Counterweight, Door, E GI VI (blind reaching), Elevator, Equipment Failure, Fibula, Fracture, Gate, Knocked from, Leg, Packaging, Reaching, Reaching In, Removing, Struck By, Tibia, Vertebra

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1512600.015	48	F	Hospitalized injury		Miscelaneous food preparation occupations

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